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3 Stocks Underperforming Today In The Metals & Mining Industry

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All three major indices are trading down today with the
Dow Jones Industrial Average (
^DJI) trading down 62 points (-0.4%) at 15,060 as of Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 760 issues advancing vs. 2,254 declining with 88 unchanged.

The Metals & Mining industry currently sits up 0.4% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.61.

TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry lower today:

3.
Gerdau (
GGB) is one of the companies pushing the Metals & Mining industry lower today. As of noon trading, Gerdau is down $0.14 (-2.4%) to $5.62 on average volume Thus far, 2.4 million shares of Gerdau exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 5.2 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $5.62-$5.79 after having opened the day at $5.78 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $5.76.

Gerdau S.A. engages in the production and commercialization of steel products worldwide. Gerdau has a market cap of $10.1 billion and is part of the basic materials sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 4.9, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 35.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 2 analysts that rate Gerdau a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 2 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates
Gerdau as a
hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including a generally disappointing performance in the stock itself, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins. Get the full
Gerdau Ratings Report now.

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